Featured Slider

I ended up taking a nice and long summer break from the blog it seems. It wasn't exactly planned but with the nice weather, football world cup, travelling and fixing things around the new apartment I just didn't make the time for blogging. But this week I'm back at work and it's about time to start blogging again!

I'm also going to try a new schedule for blogging, I will stick to my twice weekly posts but aim for Tuesday Friday rather than Wednesday Sunday posts. Let's see how it goes! And now that September is just around the corner you might see a lot of posts if I take up the 31 Day Challenge again (I'm leaning towards it).

Today's design is the one I wore when travelling to Los Angeles in late June. I usually do soak off gel nails when travelling and here I wanted to test the new matte top coat I recently bought from Hypnotic Polish. This is actually my second bottle of matte top coat, the first one I had for over a year before I opened it only to see it had dried up. This bottle is from a different brand (Masura) and felt both thick and somehow grainy. It was really hard to apply, leaving my nail thicker than I had wished and more textured than matte. After a few days of wearing the manicure the pink tone of the nail polish was muddied/clouded, I guess as a result of dust sticking to the matte top coat. You could say I'm not recommending the product, yes. Apart from that, I like overall look of the nail design!

Emma kicked of summer special Holo Friday in May (hosted at Sminkan & Emma) and ever since, I've planned to do some appropriate nails so I can join.

It took about two months for me to get there but today it is Friday, I have a holographic manicure to show and the sun is shining. Could it get any better? Perhaps if I was on vacation!

The holographic nail art I am wearing is the one I wore when we moved early June. I did a gel base to protect my nails and painted this on top. It stayed really well despite all the drying and damaging work I had to do. As ILNP Rosewater is a bit translucent (I'm wearing two coats as I think it shows of the pink shift better than with three coats) it is a good choice when you don't have the chance to repaint your nails that frequently. The tip wear I got was barely visible. On top of Rosewater I have some flowers that were painted with a thin brush and a dotting tool. I'm sure the design was inspired by someone, but unfortunately cannot locate any specific image or nail artist.

My second little blog break also ran longer than expected. I was on vacation for a little over a week and have since been busy with all kinds of non nail related things...

However, as Sweden is just about to play a decisive game against Switzerland (20 min until kick-off!) in the Football World Cup I figured this would be a good time to show these yellow and blue nails. I had originally planned to show them around our national day but I was too busy moving then so better late than never. My yellow base is OPI Never a Dulles Moment, the rest is acrylic paint.

Hello World! I'm popping in after a few weeks of intensive moving activity which didn't leave any time for blogging, or for that matter, maintaining good health nails.

I had completely forgotten just how time consuming moving is so I really thought I would manage to get everything up in a few days and then be able to go back to my normal routine, but in a new location. Turns out that doesn't work at all. After three days we had merely scratched the surface and it is not until a full two weeks later we can start to discuss where to hang that painting or mount that shelf.

Apart from the unexpected workload, the move has gone great and the new apartment is everything I had hoped!

As I mentioned, my nails haven't exactly flourished while I've unpacked boxes so today I have a design that is from a few weeks back. I painted my nails with China Glaze High Hopes (an almost perfect coral tone, in my opinion) and then freehanded the framed hearts using acrylic paint.

I will actually go on a second blog break right away as I'm flying to California tomorrow morning. The trip was planned before we decided to move, so I'm having an extra intense month. I will be back in a week and a half, hoping to be able to resume a more regular schedule.

A brief post from me today as we're in the middle of packing everything up before moving next week. I think there will be a brief blog break too as the computer has to be packed up and I'm not sure when I have it back up and rolling.

The nail art is of course the same swirl marble style I've been doing a few times this spring.

Just the other day it struck me that the time of year for graduations is upon us again. These nails feel very appropriate for it, combining both gold and silver! And no graduation without flowers.

I can't remember what I wore on my nails for my high school graduation but I think it was something medium exciting and single coloured. I do however remember that I for my middle school "graduation" wore a salmon pink Mavala polish that perfectly matched my top!